'Diciembres', Unforgotten History of US Invasion to Panama

'Diciembres', Unforgotten History of US Invasion to Panama

'Diciembres', Unforgotten History of US Invasion to Panama

Panama, Dec 7 (Prensa Latina) Prior to the 29th anniversary of the U.S. invasion to Panama, movie theaters on Friday premiere ''Diciembres'', or Decembers, (2018), a family drama that shows unpublished images of that tragic event.

Directed and written by Enrique Castro Rios, the film reflects how U.S. soldiers burst into Panama on December 20, 1989, after warplanes and gunship helicopters bombarded El Chorrillo neighborhood and other sites of the national territory.

'This is a proposal for us to ask ourselves why we forget the people who died in the invasion and the people who survived it are traumatized,' Castro Rios told the press, which, like many Panamanians, raises the slogan 'Prohibited to Forget', in reference to this mournful invasion.

'History, as we know it and how we practice it, is handled by praising certain events and hiding, ignoring or perverting others,' he said.

According to the filmmaker, 'reflecting, analyzing and gradually understanding the invasion in a more profound way would help us confront social problems that continue affecting us, such us classism, racism, hatred that leads us to identify with the attacker and not the attacked one, forgetting the latter and justifying an excessive and unnecessarily violent act of war.'

The film, which will also be screened at the movie theaters of the Havana Film Festival, reflects on the value of the images of a young photographer who documented the invasion, a fact in which he died.

Ten years later, in a Panama that forgot the dead and prepares to receive the interoceanic canal from the nation that attacked it (1999), the protagonist guides three survivors of the violent events, his son, wife and mother, towards a reconciliation, says the synopsis of the film.

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'Diciembres', Unforgotten History of US Invasion to Panama

Panama, Dec 7 (Prensa Latina) Prior to the 29th anniversary of the U.S. invasion to Panama, movie theaters on Friday premiere ''Diciembres'', or Decembers, (2018), a family drama that shows unpublished images of that tragic event.

Directed and written by Enrique Castro Rios, the film reflects how U.S. soldiers burst into Panama on December 20, 1989, after warplanes and gunship helicopters bombarded El Chorrillo neighborhood and other sites of the national territory.

'This is a proposal for us to ask ourselves why we forget the people who died in the invasion and the people who survived it are traumatized,' Castro Rios told the press, which, like many Panamanians, raises the slogan 'Prohibited to Forget', in reference to this mournful invasion.

'History, as we know it and how we practice it, is handled by praising certain events and hiding, ignoring or perverting others,' he said.

According to the filmmaker, 'reflecting, analyzing and gradually understanding the invasion in a more profound way would help us confront social problems that continue affecting us, such us classism, racism, hatred that leads us to identify with the attacker and not the attacked one, forgetting the latter and justifying an excessive and unnecessarily violent act of war.'

The film, which will also be screened at the movie theaters of the Havana Film Festival, reflects on the value of the images of a young photographer who documented the invasion, a fact in which he died.

Ten years later, in a Panama that forgot the dead and prepares to receive the interoceanic canal from the nation that attacked it (1999), the protagonist guides three survivors of the violent events, his son, wife and mother, towards a reconciliation, says the synopsis of the film.